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Back to EpisodesA new way of diagnosing prion disease may also help in other diseases, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Published 1 year, 2 months ago
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Prions are misfolded proteins that can infect us and cause our normal proteins to fold incorrectly also, and they can be found in the skin, a new study reports. Ted Dawson, a Parkinson disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says this …